The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-11-24
Generalities.
Cholera has reappeared in Messina.

boys cigarette catse:. $3.50 600 fire at Lit
tie Rock, Ark.
The paper manufacturers are combining for
mutual protection.
The national league has adopted the new rules
for the game of baseball.
Diplomatic relations between Greece and
Roumania have been severed.
The great lumber raft on the st. Johns River
has been successfully launched.
Robert Bonner has turned the management
OF the Ledger over to his three sons
The reported marriage of Clara Louise Kel-
logg and Carl Strakosch is confirmed.
Broughter, the catcher Of the Milwaukee
base ball club, has signed with the Detroits.
Wonderful stories are told Of the recently
discovered gold mines near Prescott, Arizona.
Miss Alice Pine, the first female school trus-
tee in New York city, was elected November
10th.
Wolves devoured two children near High
Prairie, Mimi, while they Were returning from
school.
Gen. Sheridan, In his annual report. declares
that the magazine gun is to be the arm of the
future.
The late Ebenezer Weld of Jamaica Plain be-
ary societies.
For the first time In the history Of the de-
partment the pension appeal cases are all dis
posed Of.
The faculty of the University of Pennsylvania
mas forbidden the students smoking within the
building.
A Nihilist In Vienna has been handed over to
the Russian police, charged with plotting
! against the Gar.
The lumber output from the Chippewa Val
ley, Wis.,, will be $50 900 900 feet for this season.
| Il slight excess over last.
a widespread conspiracy for the smuggling of
opium into the United States has been disco,-
| cred by treasury Off lals.
A mammoth cave containing thousands of
tons of zinc ore has been discovered in the
| town of Shullsburg, Wis.
Rev. Joseph Parker. of London, now lectu,-
my IN this country, says he is intensely impress
sed with American energy.
President Capen's annual report to the Trus-
| tees OF Tufts College contains strong plea t, r
broader college instruction.
A man with four dynamite bombs was arrest
| ell in Greenock on landing from New York in
the steamer State Of Indiana.
The knights of Labor have declared war upon
| the Lehigh coal operators who are resisting the
miners demands for higher pay.
The Grand Rabbi of India wore $3.50. 900
| worth of diamonds in his turban at the Roths-
| child weddings in Paris recently.
John Kelly. of Des Moines Iowa, shot and
killed his wife by mistake. He fired at hood
lunls who were stoning his house,
"Webb' says that the controversy over the
| seizure Of British vessels in Behring Sea is
more serious than was anticipated.
The venerable Simon Cameron takes great
| pride in his CATTLE His pet is steer that girths
over eight feet and weighs 2,1OO pounds.
J. Randolph fuckers fee for pleading the
cause of the Chicago Anarchists before the
| United States Supreme Court was $1,000.
The Italian government will, hereafter. sub
nit emigrants bound to the United States to a
medical examination upon their departure.
The English people now think they are called
| upon to decide whether Jay Gould or John L..
Sullivan may be regarded as a typical Amer
| lean.
n proud father in Duquesne, Penn, has
named his first boy Thomas Benton Schnatter-
ly Boyle Cleveland Genius Of Liberty Flenl-
ming.
Senator Stanford of California Is about to
import skilled laborers from Bordeaux to re-
| place the Chinese now working in his vlne-
yards.
The Christian Endeavor Society has grown
| in New York within year, from 80 branches
| and 5000 members to Alb branches and 81 900
| members.
| Eggs have been imported and are now being
| imported to and consumed In this country at
| the rate of from twelve to fifteen millions
| per annum.
| A special session of the Rhode Island Legis-
| lature has been called to consider the PROPOSE
| ton to amend the Constitution OF the State, and
| other measures.
| The official list of members of the next ma
! tional House Of Representatives shows that it
| will consist of 1,S Democrats, 1a3 Republicans
| and independents.
The governments of England France, Bel
| GUM, Holland, Germany and Denmark have
| agreed to stop the traffic in spirits among the
fishermen of the North Sea.
A syndicate of Northern and English capital,
| lists will at once build half mile of docks at
| Port Royal, and open up railroad communities
tion with Birmingham, Ala.
| 1t is proposed to commemorate the SOth birth
| day of the poet Whittier by sending him suit
| ably inscribed memorial, signed by the promi-
| nent public men of Massachusetts.
At special meeting of Plymouth Church
| and Society last week, it was decided, with but
one dissenting vote, to call Rev. Charles 4.
| Berry OF Woverhampton, England.
The Prohibition vote in Pennsylvania was re-
duced from 81 900 at last election to less than
1900 this year, and large portion of the lat
| ter was from the Democratic ranks.
One hundred and sixty five deaths from small
poX occurred in the city Of Panama from Sep
tember ], 1856, to August %, 1887, a much lower
rate of mortality than many anticipated.
The centreboard of the present is simply a
| modification of the old fashioned leehoard
and. though used In a few English boats, has
never been fully developed except III America.
Mrs. Howe, of Woman's Bank notoriety, has
tried to swindle the people of Chicago. Her
| tactics have been exposed, however. and she
will leave the city, If she has not already done
| so.
1t is reported that the White Star Steamship
Company proposes building several large steam
| ships which will revolutoniZe ocean travel
These vessels are to cross the Atlantic in five
days.
Mr.. Gladstone has In his library three desks
he conducts his private correspondence, and at
| the third he cOmmunes with his ''old friend
| Homer"
a new apparatus for consuming the smoke
| and gas of btuminous coal while burning
| designated us a smokeless furnace, consuming
coal and coke, has been satisfactorily tested in
| Rochester, n. Y.
Canadians are warm admirers of President
| Cleveland because they believe that he wants
| to reduce the duties on various raw materials
| which Canada can export to this country in al
most unlimited quantities.
Two eX-Presilents of Yale College are still
living-Drs. Woolsey and Porter. The former
| has the greater power of recollecting the names
| and faces Of Yale graduates. His memory OF
| their career in college Is remarkable.
Returns from Virginia show that the Repub-
lcans carried the State at the recent election
by popular vote of 1000. They also have a
| majority in five Senatorial districts. Senator
Malone comedies to the Democrats a majority
| in the House.
A Boston man who makes raspberry jam for
a living Is authority for the statement that 1--WE
| don't use any raspberries at all in making the
jam" What eve" do use, 1t appears are toma-
toes, and glucose and hay seed and ''little pre-.
pared raspberry flavor"
| In all the villages and through the farming
| districts of the Miami Valley, Ohio, as a result
of the water famine, an epidemic of diphtheria
and fevers prevail. At Lewisburg, where the
death list Is the greatest, schools closed and the
! Children are forbidden to 60 upon the streets.
Again the Panama Canal has been shown to
| he virtual impossiblity, and this time by cold
| facts and figures furnished by the Columbian
government agent In an official report. He
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